What's New in Cardiac Imaging?: SPECT, PET and MRI (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine)
A Day In the Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you wear pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, then I think you might want to learn about Syringomyelia. I'm an expert in the sense I have it. I don't know much in terms of medical information or help groups, what color to wear, or how to send you to a 5 mile walk for it. I first learned I "had it" when nerve pain radiated like electrical shocks over my body around my skull when I'd had my...
Stuart Glendinning Hall (Free subscription) | yesterday
News from Xyggy – their patent search service is now live. Forget keywords, this is about item searches. Strikes me this would be of interest in the medical imaging world. So I tried ‘MRI’ as the item search. Then selected the top of the list return. Usefully the search engine then delivers a list of similar [...]
The Disease & Illness Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Tom Nicholson Tendon strain is a common injury that can occur from misuse, most often from a sports injury. For instance, the Achilles tendon that connects the anklebone to the calf muscles are most often injured by basketball players. Generally, this injury is treatable by resting the area and occasional applications of ice pack. To help prevent swelling and relieve pain this area is generally...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks as if the Pistons will have to do without small forward Tayshaun Prince for the foreseeable future. The Pistons announced Saturday that Prince will be out indefinitely due to a small disk rupture in his lower back after an MRI exam confirmed the injury.
Funny SMS Jokes and Text Messages (Free subscription) | yesterday
ECG Ultra Sound CAT Scan X.Ray MRI CT Scan . . No Medical Test can Find Symptoms of “Broken Heart” & No Medical Treatment Can Cure “Broken Heart” So Pls don’t Break Hearts
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting. In addition, the researchers also found that the higher the metabolic activity and tumor size on a PET scan before treatment, the...
McCabism (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Is there a basic neuro-physiological difference between the brains of racing drivers and the brain of a normal person? Is a racing driver's preference for understeer or oversteer determined by neuro-physiological differences? The techniques for answering both of these questions are already available, and have been applied by University College London (UCL) to study the structure and activity of the...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
After five weeks of testimony and about 70 witnesses, a DuPage County jury will hear closing arguments Tuesday in the death penalty sentencing hearing for Brian Dugan for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, of Naperville. On the final day of testimony, Dugan told Judge George Bakalis that he was declining to testify on his own behalf, a decision supported by his team of five...
Macho Row (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A full year against National League batters? Yes please! (AP Photo) This was expected but today the Phillies made the inevitable move. Todd Zolecki reports ( via Twitter ) that the Phillies have picked up the option for 2010 on Cliff Lee 's existing contract. Lee had previously stated that he would like to work out a long-term deal with the team and that may still be a possibility, although it does...
knitnut.net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yesterday afternoon I got a call from my breast cancer surgeon. That MRI I had last Friday night? It found something. I’ve got a new lump in my right breast. It’s very small, it might not be cancer, it might just be scar tissue, but it’s in a completely different area of my breast than the [...] Related posts: A preliminary plan unfolds I can’t think of a title for this post...
MindBlog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Palminteri et al. show that the expected values of two options, which were cued by visual symbols and chosen with either the left or right hand, enhanced activity, respectively, in the right or left (i.e. contralateral) ventral prefrontal cortex, thus respecting the topography of the brain systems elicited by the available options. A main focus in economics is on binary choice situations, in which...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Measures of the pscychopathic characteristics of Brian Dugan's brain show he is in the top half percent of the general population in exhibiting traits of the disorder, according to a neuroscientist's testimony Thursday. Kent Kiehl, a psychiatrist at the forefront of a new method of measuring brain activity known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, found that Dugan measured 37 on a 40-point scale...
Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Orlando, FL (WiredPRNews.com) Danielle Queening, a registered diagnostic medical sonographer and an adjunct faculty member at Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences (FHCHS) has been appointed to the 2009-2010 Continuing Medical Education (CME) review committee of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS). I am excited about the professional responsibilities that being a member of the...
The Cub Reporter (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sorry for missing the day's rampant speculation on Ted Lilly's left pitching shoulder arthroscopy. I was in the OR all day and connecting hip bones to... So in one hour what can you see during a shoulder scope? Dr. Yokum puts the scope in from the posterior portal , low and behold he sees a caricature of Sean Marshall smiling face on the anterior capsule. He then puts in a Wissinger rod to create...
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Workout RMR 1.1 Category: Healthcare & Fitness Price: $0.99 -> Free ( iTunes ) Description: Introducing Workout RMR! A brand new VISUAL Innovative way for you to measure your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR). Track your RMR Rate / Calories Burned After Workouts. Getting lean is now alot easier if you know how your body works. Used and Developed by Pros. Research and Studies show how the muscles...
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